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Bernie Goldberg To Bill O’Reilly: Sometimes Cable News Hosts Have To ‘Shut The Hell Up’

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Today was Bill O’Reilly‘s return to manning the fort at the Factor, and he came back to some unfinished business between his substitute host Laura Ingraham and Rep. Charlie Rangel, who dismissed her (and then apologized) as “just a pretty girl.” Discussing the issue with Bernie Goldberg, however, O’Reilly found him somewhat sympathetic to Rep. Rangel, arguing that Ingraham was “lucky” that’s the most he said, given that she was constantly interrupting.

O’Reilly explained that over the break, as he was swimming, he got a series of messages along the lines of “watch your own show, idiot!” regarding the Ingraham/Rep. Rangel segment,and asked Goldberg for his impression. He gave “a big emphatic no” to the underlying question of whether the Congressman had crossed a line, arguing, “when did we become such sissies that something like this becomes a big deal? It’s clearly a generational thing.”

Aside from the comment itself, however, Goldberg took issue with Ingraham’s interrupting. “Laura is lucky that that’s all he said about her,” he noted, “because there ought to be a rule on this show: the host asks a question and then shuts the hell up.” He added that Rep. Rangel “was clearly frustrated,” an argument O’Reilly didn’t entirely buy. “It wasn’t the pretty girl thing,” O’Reilly countered, “‘just’ is the key word there.” He added that, as an interviewer, “you have to interrupt when you ask a question– you know this– because many times the question isn’t answered.” The irony wasn’t lost on Goldberg that, in order to make that point, O’Reilly interrupted.

“Are you alleging right here on your program– right here, right now– that Charlie Rangel would lie?” Goldberg asked, to which O’Reilly replied in the negative, which was a “relevant” point to Goldberg. O’Reilly replied saying he wouldn’t allow answers that were either “dishonest or a dance,” a point Goldberg used against him, as he would not argue that Rangel’s answer fell into either two categories. “A lot of times the hosts have an agenda, and the person starts to answer the question, but they want to make a speech,” Goldberg replied. He did agree ultimately, however, that guests who “filibuster” should be interrupted (as well as jokingly coming to a consensus on the idea that Goldberg himself was on television as “a pretty face with nothing upstairs.”)

The segment via Fox News below:

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  • Brer Orabbit

    Never take a vacation unless you are constantly monitoring your subordinates.  QED, you took a vacation from what?

  • Anonymous

    Too bad O’Reilly & Goldberg don’t shut the hell up…forever.

  • qwerty

    o’reilly trying to get the middle and left audience back

  • Anonymous

    Bernie Goldberg To Bill O’Reilly: Sometimes Cable News Hosts Have To ‘Shut The Hell Up’

    Yes they do .

    Did King Obama invite his illegal alien Aunt Zeituni over to M.V. ?
    She lives in public housing in Boston . If not, why not ?
    She could stay with political prop John Brennan or one of the other 100 people and servants they brought at taxpayer expense .

    Barry could invite brother George-in-the-hut to bring his clubs and come over from Africa .

    Maybe brothers Abongo and Samson might want to come and have some french fries and lobster .

  • BR

    I don’t think he ever lost them.  Do you have anything to back that up?

  • Anonymous

    Ummmm. He never lost it. See ratings numbers.

  • Anonymous

    Then who would we watch?

    Larry the Socialist? Or the creepy British guy?

    Don’t think so.

  • Norbit

    Oh, big deal!

    Did anyone notice that Palestinians are launching attacks directly from Egyptian borders now?

    Hey Jewish Democrats – how much of your blood-money is winding up with those who want to kill the state of Israel?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I would like to see all of the serial interrupters forever banned from television. The worst offenders: Loud-Mouthed Laura, Greta O’Van Susteren and Chris Matthews.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Is it my imagination, or is Burney developing a permanent grey prison pallor?

  • Norbit

    You’re thinking of Cooper, Emp.

  • insideguy

     This is why I like Bill. Bernie is right Ingraham’s interview was horrible. Wish Mediate would post the first part of Bill Os show tonight he got into it with two rich conservatives over raising taxes, Bill got his clock cleaned but at least he put himself out there.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I’ll check it out. Thanks for the tip.

  • Yy

    Wow, talk about the Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

  • Anonymous

    About time someone told O’Reilly where to stick it. He takes filibuster to a whole new level.

  • Johnjguy

    ‘Barry could invite brother George-in-the-hut to bring his clubs and come over from Africa . 

    Maybe brothers Abongo and Samson might want to come and have some french fries and lobster…’

    …Just couldn’t help yourself could you? 

    Congratulations! I’m sure your very proud of your trough prowling ignorance. Mr Lantern.

  • bhodiedog

    I aboslutely hate it when Ingraham subs for O’Reilly, it is bad enough when she is a guest, but she is totally obnoxious when she hosts….She has a very rude manner, there is no discussion with her, it’s her way or no way….

  • Hugo Daun

    Try turning off the TV for a change, dummy.

  • Anonymous

    Congratulations! I’m sure your very proud of your trough prowling ignorance. Mr Lantern.

    Your- you’re

    I have no idea what you’re trying to say . You are very ignorant . Are you a teacher  in Washington ?

  • Anonymous

    Screw you  very much.

  • Arkansas Steve

    I admire Bill O’Reilly
    However, during the first two segments of his 1st post-vacation show he acted more like Nancy Grace.
    And that is NOT a compliment.
    Fortunately things got better after he calmed down a bit.

  • expatpatriot

    I’ve only ever seen Ingraham on TV — a talking head from the waist up — so I can’t speak to whether she is (or was) a “beautiful girl.”

    However, from listening to her, I can say categorically that she is an ugly person: hateful, mean, mendacious, self-satisfied, and cruel.

    Rangel was trying to be nice. He shouldn’t have bothered.

  • Sharpo

    the lantern of truth is a coward with no balls

    or

    the lantern of truth doesn’t believe what he says.

  • Sharpo

    this has not hing to do with palestinians or egypt

    please grow at set of balls norbit. then tweet those pictures to yourself so you know what balls look like

    you clearly have none.

    coward

  • Sharpo

    Bill has always been very good about positions his audience has and getting infront of those positions as quickly as possible.

  • Anonymous

    I think Bernie is right on this.  I thought the Rangel  interview was handled clumsely on both sides.  Laura makes her living interviewing and she is also a UVA Law School graduate.  I would tend to believe that anyone with those credentials would have had a line of questioning that resulted in Rangel unwittingly conceding the point she was trying to make all along. 

    Unfortuanely for Laura, she was trying to get Charlie to admit he ordered the “Code Red”.

  • Sharpo

    whats wrong with that flavor of soda?

  • Anonymous
  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    Pew: percent of people who watch the O’Reilly Factor - 
    Conservative – 72% 
    Moderate – 23% 
    Liberal – 4%

  • gordonbloyershow

    Why are you here, you a one constant interruption. Plus you are a liar and a loser trying to hide behind a phony name.

  • Owl22

    It looks like Laura The Skreech is getting on ‘ol Bill’s nerves as well.

  • gordonbloyershow

    Rangle does NOTHING but lie. He still thinks he did nothing to get repremanded by the Congress.

  • Anonymous

    Or at least while someone is trying to answer them.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Turns out Ed Schultz was right about her, and Bernie agrees.

  • Anonymous

    I think the make-up person (with the best of intentions) may have gone a little overboard.

  • Anonymous

    I realize that these hosts want to fit in as much as they think their viewers want to know and cut off the long winded talking points of the guests, but Goldberg is right. Too many of them interrupt too much.
    On the other hand, some hosts bring a guest on just to let them prattle on about every talking point they want to hit without the needed interruptions. That’s not much of an interviewing technique either. Finding that balance must be tough.
    I love it when a host stops the guest to call them on their BS.

  • EddyJ

    Wow, who pissed Bernie off?  Is he mad that O’Reilly never lets him host the show when he’s on vacation?  I can’t stand to watch 1 minute of Laura.  What a witch and the angry takes away any good looks Rangel might thinks she has.

  • Anonymous

    Bill O’Reilly is simply one big interruption. Luckily ( amazingly ) this works for him because he’s got the thought process of a rutabaga.

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  • Anonymous

    I feel that Goldberg is tolerating Billo, just because its his job to be there. If he was really to tell Billo how he feels about him and his colleagues, it would be the end of him on Fox. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I don’t take anyone seriously who does not have an avatar. Nor do I take anyone seriously who has been banned from cable access television in Portage, Indiana.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    He was reprimanded as well.

  • Sharpo

    why is it that right wing cowards with no balls are the ONLY people referring to Obama as king?

    LOLZ RIGHT WING COWARDS ARE DUMBER THAN NEWT.

  • Sharpo

    Perhaps Goldberg doesn’t feel like being made a mockery of on the daily show.. again.

  • Anonymous

    Well! He has the natch to say the truth but sometimes play to the phonies he is working for. For example since he called out Hannity for his Obama derangement syndrome, he hasn’t been back there yet.

  • Anonymous

    Bernie is right about hosts interrupting guests but if he thinks the libtards would have let a Conservative get away with referring to a lib host as “just a pretty girl”, he is living in an alternative universe.

  • Anonymous

    Nice to see you still live in a fantasy world.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RSLEVQBMJKCHPALYRG4FM2LFPQ Chuck

    A couple of the things that raise flags to me in discourse is comments that can be construed as racist and ones that are sexist.  I was a little bit concerned Bernie was leaning towards the latter.  It was not appropriate for the congressman to say ‘just a pretty girl’ and even worse to take it back in the manner he did (not the ‘just’ but only the ‘pretty girl’).  He should have been called out on it and he was.  On the other hand Laura was being over aggressive and should have let him blabber on a bit for at least a few of the exchanges to balance out her rapid fire hammering on the others.

  • Johnjguy

    I strangely, find my self agreeing with Mr Goldberg. 

    Ms Ingraham simply wouldn’t let Mr Rangel speak, after she felt she’d been insulted. It didn’t make for an interview of any merit apart from zingers which someone on these threads pointed out made for exciting TV. Although they are worthless if in the larger context, the whole point of the interview is lost.

  • Irish189
  • Small Thoughts

    As much as I like the O’Reilly show, he needs to “shut the hell up” and let his
    guests speak. Interrupt only if the guest filibusters or veers off subject.

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